Website of the Constitutional Council the body responsible for regulating public authorities in Côte d'Ivoire. The Council also regulates presidential and parliamentary elections. There is information on the president and the members of the Council along with selected decisions which can be viewed in full (PDF). The site is available in French only.
Web page of the Côte d'Ivoire Supreme Court. The page gives an outline of the judicial system in Côte d'Ivoire including the composition and functions of the courts of first instance, courts of appeal, Supreme Court and High Court of Justice. The site can be viewed in French only.
Law section of the ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) website, focusing on the Treaty of Lagos, 1975, which established this 15-member regional group, and other official documents. The purpose of ECOWAS is to promote economic integration in the region and create an economic and trading union. A revised 1993 version of the Treaty of Lagos is provided, along with regulations, communiques, decisions and other ECOWAS official documents.
Electronic copy of the 2016 Constitution of the Côte d'Ivoire made freely available by the Comparative Constitutions Project at the University of Texas at Austin. The Constitution is provided in PDF and has sections on the founding principles of the Republic, the functions of the executive, legislative and judicial powers, the Constitutional Council and the traditional chieftaincy. It also outlines the rights and responsibilities of the individual citizen.
Online guide to the legal system of Côte d'Ivoire written by Armel Olivier Yapi who is a jurist with a background in private law and international human rights law and Yao Mamoudou Ouattara who is a jurist specialist in human rights. The guide was published in 2009 (and updated in 2022) on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School at the New York University School of Law. It provides background and historical information about Côte d'Ivoire.
Article looking at transitional justice and the African truth commissions, written by Charles Manga Fombad who is Professor of Law at the University of Botswana. The article was published in 2008 and updated in 2022 on New York University's Globalex website. Covers truth commissions in 18 African countries and comments on their work. Links are given to related legal resources including research guides, bibliographies and law libraries.
OHADA.com provides information and documentation relating to the Organization for the Harmonisation of Business Law in Africa, including the OHADA Treaty, OHADA uniform acts and implementing rules in English and French. Summaries of the judgments of the Common Court of Justice and Arbitration (CCJA) are provided in French only; for the full text (also in French), registration is required but there is no charge.
